Reviews

★ Dear Evelyn

Kathy Page’s latest novel is a portrait of a marriage. In this respect, and in its linking of personal and historical events across the 20th century, Dear Evelyn is familiar, even conventional, both formally and ... Read More »

September 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History

By Douglas Hunter

In 1936, Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum purchased 10th-century Norse relics from Eddy Dodd, a prospector who said he’d uncovered them on his mining plot in Beardmore, Ontario. The relics were displayed in the museum as ... Read More »

September 13, 2018 | Filed under: History

Who Killed Tom Thomson?: The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Artists

By John Little

It’s the most enduring mystery in Canadian art: how did famed landscape painter Tom Thomson die? The past century has seen a flood of books, articles, and documentaries speculating – without reaching a definitive determination ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

No Good Brother

By Tyler Keevil

Tyler Keevil writes stories about men doing manly things. In this, his most immediate and significant literary predecessor is Hemingway, but Keevil also stakes out ground among a group of younger Canadian writers – Kevin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sealskin

By Tyler Keevil

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien

By Yves Beauchemin; Wayne Grady (trans.)

In the ominous opening pages of Yves Beauchemin’s new tome, the moon looks “as if it had been dipped in blood,” which matches the titular protagonist’s “shock of gorgeous red hair that gave him the ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hungover: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Here’s a drinking game you can play at home: every time Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s new book mentions Kingsley Amis – his hero and a giant of both postwar British fiction and guzzling alcohol – take a ... Read More »

August 27, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

Tilly and the Crazy Eights

By Monique Gray Smith

Since winning the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature for Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Cree-Lakota-Scottish writer Monique Gray Smith has published three children’s books and produced the podcast ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Circle on the Surface

By Carol Bruneau

Eleven years after the end of the Second World War, Enman Greene waits patiently for his 12-year-old daughter’s music lesson to end. It’s her birthday, and he has decided at lunch to finally tell her ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hockey Fight in Canada: The Big Media Faceoff Over the NHL

By David Shoalts

The formula for producing a Hockey Night in Canada ratings bonanza is relatively simple. In the best-case scenario, all six of Canada’s National Hockey League franchises make the Stanley Cup playoffs, capped by a seven-game ... Read More »

August 20, 2018 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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